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From: mack@inco.UUCP (Dave Mack)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Scrap the current NG creation procedure, invent a new one
Message-ID: <4907@inco.UUCP>
Date: 10 Apr 89 15:47:19 GMT
References: <3010@looking.UUCP> <445@flatline.UUCP>
Reply-To: mack@inco.UUCP (Dave Mack)
Organization: McDonnell Douglas-INCO, McLean, VA
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In article <2958@ncar.ucar.edu> woods@handies.UCAR.EDU (Greg Woods) writes:
>In article <3147@alembic.UUCP> csu@alembic.UUCP (Dave Mack) writes:
>>Are you willing to honor the outcome of the votes (or whatever),
>>even if you personally feel that a group is unnecessary or poorly
>>named?
>
>  Who is to stop someone else from sending out a newgroup? The only
>thing I would have the power to do is to refuse to carry a group on
>my site, and I would have that power whether or not I become the
>administrator of the group creation guidelines.
>  I do NOT plan to make actual group creation decisions (except for
>my own site), even if I could. That is for the administrators of individual
>sites to do. The vote procedure is merely a GUIDELINE (there's that word 
>again) to assist them in making that decision.

Perhaps my question wasn't sufficiently clearly stated. You have proposed
yourself as the new keeper of the newsgroup list - the list that most
admins use (in conjunction with the checkgroups messages, of which, I
assume, you will also be the keeper) to determine which newsgroups are
legitimate, still alive, moderated, etc.

My question is: will you honor legitimately conducted votes (according
to whatever set of guidelines exists at the time) by updating the list
and the corresponding checkgroups message to reflect the results of
the vote, regardless of your personal opinions about the affected
newsgroup?

-- 
Dave Mack